Shrimp Paste Fried Rice @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice or in Pinoy style: bagoong fried rice. The shrimp paste or bagoong was already mixed in with the rice and served with strips of scrambled egg, Chinese sausage, pork bits, strips of green mangoes, lemon, chili, onion and cucumber slices. 

I transferred the chili, onion, lemon, cucumber, pork bits and sausage slices to another plate and mixed the rest together with the rice. (Hmm... it would have been shorter to say I mixed in the mango strips and egg with the rice while the rest I discarded. Ha.)

The dish was good. You can taste the strong shrimp paste flavor and it wasn't too much to overpower your taste buds. The tartness of the mango strips brought in a nice flavor to complement the shrimp paste. The eggs added texture and protein to the dish. 

I also ordered the Thai Mango Salad which was more strips of mango, pickled and mixed in with strips of onion and chili. The sweet and sour taste of this salad was a nice mix to the fried rice. 

My lunch buddy ordered their Thai Bamboo Salad (top dish on the photo below) and that was a bust. It smelled weird and tasted weird too. We didn't eat any of it but the server had it packed in a doggy bag without us asking to. We ended up throwing it in the trash outside. I know, such a waste of food but we couldn't stomach it. The smell alone turned us off.

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm

Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet & Sour Sauce @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

To continue my previous post about lunch at Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen, here's my review on their Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet and Sour Sauce (S$12).

First for a 12-dollar dish, I was expecting a bigger serving. I think it had no more than 10 fillets of fish in the dish with a lot of them only bite size. One serving would barely be enough for two people.

Second, the dish reminded me of the classic sweet and sour fish also popular in the Philippines. More on the sweet side with chunks of pineapples and tomatoes in the dish. Overall, it was tasty and refreshing. A great complement to the previously blogged about Salted Fish Fried Rice.

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm

Salted Fish Fried Rice in Claypot @ Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen

My friend and I usually avoid Golden Mile Complex when it comes to lunch destinations -- for various reasons. This time, we were invited to have lunch with one of our colleagues and this was the place chosen. It's a shop on the ground level of Golden Mile Complex beside many Thai restaurants and stores the place is known for.

The place was clean with great service. We were seated immediately with a surprisingly varied menu given to us. They serve soups, salads, seafood dishes (crab, fish, prawns), meat dishes (chicken, beef, pork), vegetables and some authentic Thai and local drinks.

I ordered their Salted Fish Fried Rice in Claypot and Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet & Sour Sauce. The Salted Fish Fried Rice was like it says fried rice with bits of salted fish, scrambled egg strips and cashew nuts. It was served in a claypot but it looked like it wasn't actually cooked in the claypot. It was most probably cooked in a wok and then just served in a claypot. Usually, claypot rice dishes have a semi burnt taste to it and with rice sticking to the pot. Tuk Tuk's claypot rice didn't have any of those. No matter though, it was still good cooked in a claypot or not.

As for the Fried Fish Fillet with Sweet and Sour Sauce, that will have to be reserved for the next entry. 'Til then, happy eats!

Tuk Tuk Thai Kitchen
#01-57/58/59, Golden Mile Complex
5001 Beach Road S(199588)
T: 6293 5101


Hours:
Mon to Sun: 6am - 10:30pm

Pad Thai @ Beerthai House Restaurant

After how many weeks of having lunch at this place, this is the first time I have ordered their Pad Thai, a classic Thai dish.

I was kind of surprised to see that for their version, they use a different kind of noodles that I'm used to seeing in pad thai dishes. I'm not sure what kind of noodles they are but they're almost like vermicelli or glass noodles. Besides that whole noodle confusion, the dish was tasty and served with good-sized shrimps. I make a point of saying that because I've tried pad thai dishes where they serve those dry packaged shrimps that taste like cardboard. Ick.

We also ordered their Tom Yum Seafood Soup with milk. Always a good dish to have on a rainy day.

Beerthai House Restaurant
Golden Mile Complex #01-96
5001 Beach Road, (S)199588
Tel: 63922491

Seafood Green Curry Rice @ Beerthai House Restaurant

Another lunch post brought to you by Beerthai House. :-)

This time I ordered their Green Curry Rice, seafood of course. You can also get this with chicken. The seafood were prawns, fish balls and squid. It also had some greens and red chilies. The rice was mixed in green curry sauce perfectly - not too soupy. Pretty spicy but very good. Can I just say how much I like how they serve their rice dishes? Pretty rice pyramids.

For this trip to Beerthai, we also ordered their Seafood Tom Yum soup. For some reason, this time around it was really, really, REALLY spicy.

Beerthai House Restaurant
Golden Mile Complex #01-96
5001 Beach Road, (S)199588
Tel: 63922491

Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper @ Beerthai House Restaurant

Another Monday with a trip to Beerthai House Restaurant. This time I ordered their Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper while my lunch buddy ordered their Kailan with Seafood.

The Stir Fried Fish with Green Pepper was basically fish fillets in a spicy red curry-like sauce. It was mixed with some red chilies, green vegetables and herbs that I really didn't recognize. The verdict is it was delicious as always in this restaurant but a tad bit oily looking.

As I mentioned above, my lunch buddy ordered their Kailan with Seafood. Actually, the original dish is supposed to be Kailan with Roast Pork but the people at the restaurant obliged us by taking the pork out and replacing it with seafood. The kailan was served with big sliced red chilies, prawns, squid, fish balls and some odd nuts here and there. It was perfectly seasoned with the sauce very yummy.

Note: We're going to try everything on the menu at this place so expect more entries from this restaurant. And frankly, it's the most decent place to have lunch near our office. I really don't like the food in the hawker centres in the area.

Beerthai House Restaurant
Golden Mile Complex #01-96
5001 Beach Road, (S)199588
Tel: 63922491

Crispy Cuttlefish @ Beerthai House Restaurant

Ever since I've started my new job, I've probably had lunch at this place half the time. It's a hole-in-a-corner type of place called Beerthai House Restaurant. They serve very good and affordable Thai dishes.

For this trip, I had their Crispy Cuttlefish which wasn't really a one-person kind of serving. It was meant to be shared but I couldn't resist. It is a very simple dish but cooked perfectly and when dipped in their Thai spicy sauce, it was oh so good. I finished half of it while the rest I had doggy-bagged. The dish cost SG$15 (good for 2-3 persons). 

My lunch buddy ordered their Mini Thai Steamboat (SG$7) with seafood. It had green vegetables, shrimps, fishballs, squid and rice noodles. A word of advice though, I had a small sip of the soup and it was spicy. For me saying that it was spicy means it IS. I think I have a high tolerance for spicy food so if you're not, best if you let them know to make it less spicy.

Beerthai House Restaurant
Golden Mile Complex #01-96
5001 Beach Road, (S)199588
Tel: 63922491